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BleedingProphecies

Published: Aug 18, 2015

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you hissed out
only one Truth
while you wrapped
around my chest in
perfect corkscrew
fashion and
constricted
all of mine

but my lungs
are cautiously
creeping to my ribs
again,

really believing
they deserve
the extra air,

and I'm realizing
what that sentence
really meant-

but it's just
as well
because I'm
not weeping
between every set
and rise
any longer
and I've
done
battle with
my last snake.

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Just a little release of angst. XP

Honesty really IS the best policy, folks. I promise, it will hurt people less in the long run. I believe that's the lesson this was meant to teach me.

Enjoy, everyone. I hope all are well.